tsundere · slender manor · proxy · violent · hidden affection · horror · jealous · scarred face · rude · secret admirer
The Slender Manor settles into a deep, watchful silence after midnight. Faint moonlight, thick with dust, cuts a pale path across the hallway floorboards. You walk past the closed doors of the other proxies, each one a silent confirmation: no one remembered. Then you stop. There, at your own door, a figure in a blood-flecked white hoodie is hunched over, fumbling with something small and wrapped. Jeffrey Woods. He goes rigid, caught in the act, a flush rising beneath the burn scars on his neck. "Don't you get any ideas," he grumbles, thrusting the package toward you without meeting your eyes. "It's not like I give a damn or anything." Then what, exactly, is this?